+CORRECTION+ >(google error)... for best results >google... +EUGENE RAY / ETIENNE deGRUY - FORT LIVINGSTON gene -----Original Message----- From: Eugene Ray Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:25 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: DESERT REFLECTIONS/1) deGRUY history of social/religous concern 2) MONTAUT/MONBERAUD and RENNES le CHATEAU languedoc / 3) deGRUY @ FORT LIVINGSTON +ITEMS OF MEDITATION+ in the california DESERT march 24/ 25 20 (81 degrees and clear) +PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA+ >on mardi gras day we were only a few miles from "CHINA LAKE" where my bride, MARIANNE was living with (1955 / 1956) >WILLIAM LAUB< >her 1st husband, a physicist w/ >THE GOVERNMENTS FIRST MOON ROCKET SCIENTIFIC CAMPAIGN ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >(von braun and other german rocket experts newly arrived. beginning a monumental >historical space effort) >ALL LIVING IN QUONSET HUTS BOILING IN THE DESERT SUN. +SYNCHRONISTICALLY+ >that same year, 1955, i was married to marian olsen ray and just as the laubs, we went to mexico for our honeymoon, the same places. ( TAXCO/CUERNAVACA ) >amazingly, a decade later i was designing a community for these same german scientists near >HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA< >WHILE MY BROTHER WALKER, WAS WORKING ON THE ROCKETS AT (near cavaroc plantation) >MICHOUD ON AN OLD CREOLE +P L A N T A T I O N+ ^^^^^^^^^^^ 1) >RAY/deGRUY HISTORY OF SOCIAL CONCERN >was important to our ancestors.. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +THIS CONCERN CONTINUES+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >"INDIA POVERTY PEOPLE," "no fairy tales on india streets" is a poignant feature article in the >L.A. TIMES that my son DEREK was a contributer to, about the vast group of homeless children in INDIA.. >DEREK was on the scene, aiding the >RESCUE EFFORT & RETURNING with > POIGNANT PHOTOGRAPHS< >he and marianne's son, JIM LAUB both work ceaslessly to aid families in the >POVERTY STRICKEN WORLD AREAS. >it was good to see the touching film "SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE" (best picture, 2009) +WIN THE ACADEMY AWARD+ (8 awards total) 2) MONTAUT / MONTBERAUD AND >RENNES LE CHATEAU< ********************** >i am considering visiting this area south of toulouse and carcasonne in sept. (languedoc) >THIS IS CATHAR/TEMPLAR REGION with degruy/montaut montberaud >POWERFUL HISTORICAL REFERENCE (religious,/social mystery/drama, >decharney/devirgy locations) also +KINGS OF NEVARRE & ARAGON+ (remember our pamplume, albret, toulouse heritage) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +CAVAROC BLOOD ALSO DRAWS me here with tremendous +GENETIC MEMORY+ >NOTE: on march 8, 2007 i wrote about finding the villages of +MONTAUT & MONBERAUD+ on the map +SOUTH OF TOULOUSE+ (60 miles west of rennes le chateau) +COUNTS DESCENDED FROM+ (jeanne de albret) +NAVARRE & FRENCH KINGS+ >castle locuses of the ancestors of our ELIZABETH SABINE deMONTAUT deMONBERAUD deGRUY google: EUGENE RAY / MONTAUT - MONBERAUD >for my review of this history< >henri de montaut de monberaud was about the same age as our antoine (20 years old) >ARRIVED @ NEW ORLEANS ONLY (sept., 1738) 6 MONTHS BEFORE. ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 3) ALSO : for my 2006 piece on the ETIENNE deGRUY >plantation at the site of FORT LIVINGSTON google >EUGENE RAY/ deGRUY PLANTATION - FORT LIVINGSTON gene ray, san diego, california